Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-04
SUNDAYS NEWS.

The late cold has had a very damaging
effect on the wheat throughout Fairfield
county, O., and the fruit is extensively de-
! strOyed.
Captain W. W. Peabody, of Cincinnati,
has been offered the position of General
Manager of the B. & O.. lines west OF the
Ohio River.
Three moOnshiners have been arrested in
| Grant county, Ark, the first arrests ever
made for the offense in the southern part of
that State.
Logan, o. ,ProhibitOnists threaten to boy
colt Mr.. Il. W. Keynes, prominent mil
Ter, for running for Council on the Repub-
| lican ticket.
The Pennsylvania Railroad coal miners
have accepted under protest the proposition
of the coal companies to pay sixty cents per
| ton for one year
John Hanson, a Wanatah lind. saloon.
keeper, suicided by putting his head under
the wheels of train after the locomotive
had passed him.
Chicago carpenters have made demand
for increased wages A majority of the
contractors have acceded to the demand.
! Two thousand men are ont.
Reuben Hargate, a Youngstown pud-
dler, and Ed Mcdonald, of Brooklyn,
fought sixteen rounds, near Youngstown,
with kid gloves. The fight was given to
Hargate.
la fight near Hemphill, Sabine county,
Tex between Captain Scott and his State
rangers and Willis Conner and his sons,
three of the Corners and one of the rangers
were killed.
Vim. SculIY, the noted alien landlord
who owns vast tracts in Logan, SangamOn
and Livingston counties, Ill, has added
to his possession by buying eleven hun
drcd acres near Cayuga, Livingston coun'
ty, O., for S45, 900.
| BrddstreerS, in its review of the wool
market this week, says that the movement
of wool into consumption is limited to the
present wants of manufacturers, which
are by no means extensive, 80 that the
markets are extremely dull and prices are
weak.
The cotton factors and buyers of New
Orleans have pledged themselves to dis
charge wcighers, classers and others eIu-
ployed by them unless they shall ut once
resign from all the organizations that may
i'll any way impede the commerce oil the
city of New Orleans.
The leading railways are following up
the action of the Central Traffic Associa-
ton on the abolition of ticket commissions,
with orders TO their subOrdinates in the
passenger department OF the most stringent
character Employees are forbidden to ac-
cept emolument of any kind from connect
ing roads, directly or indirectly, on pain OF
summary dismissal.
Plans for an arnOred cruiser and pow
crful battle ship from the following COM
pauies and persons were opened in the
Navy Department Friday
The Barrow Ship Building Company, OF
England, two designs the Tham's Iron
Ship Building Company, Of England, two
designs and two half models the Bureau
OF Construction, Navy Department, two
designs and a model \. Grandiean, OF
| France, design for armOred cruiser; Lieu
tenant w. !. Chambers, L. 8. n, design
FIR armored cruiser; Francis l.. Norton, of
New York, design Afor armored hattlesbip ;
Captain l.. n. Towns of New York, design
Tor cruiser Naval Constructor POok, de-
sigu for armOred cruiser.
These designs will be submitted 10
hoard appointed by Secretary Whitney to
make selection of the vessels best adapted
for the American navy.